Arabs put to vote a UN resolution demanding an immediate Gaza cease-fire, knowing US will veto it

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Why the US will veto a UN vote demanding a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
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And the US is going to veto it because....?

US was actually the only country to veto. Does not look good tbf

And now China is condemning it. Like, wtf. I honestly don't know why we are blocking U.N. action on this. It's brazenly pro-ethnic cleansing. It's not like there's wiggle room to debate, there's no room. It's just plainly a mass killing of a minority population that was already living under apartheid conditions.

Are our political leaders just religious enough to quake in fear at the thought of angering their abrahamic diety? Or is this confirmation that there really IS a powerful zionist cabal that can manipulate US foreign policy?

I mean, both are conspiratorial stretches, but wtf else could biden hang this decision on?

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If they didn't veto it what would happen? Is there an article like NATO that would stipulate that the UN counties would go to war... I didn't think there was. So I am unsure if would have any change.

Resolutions made by the UN security council (which this would have been) can be enforced through the UN peacekeeping mission (aka the blue helmets) by stationing UN troops along the contact line to prevent hostilities from resuming. This has had mixed success in the past, there is actually a peacekeeping mission stationed right now on the Israel/Lebanon border which hasn't prevented either side from shooting at each other after the October 7 attack.

That's good to know. So does that just require a majority vote? (Which if this wasn't vetoed would have been a landslide). Or does it require some other percentage?

UN general assembly majority vote, but security council, the permanent members all need to agree as even one nay is a veto.

So that would mean if the U.S. eventually doesn't veto it, Russia might as it has clearly been to their benefit.

What a stupid world we live in.

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